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ASIO BRACHYOTUS (Linn^us). 

 SHORT-EARED OWL. 



^ 508. 0;«e.— Ross-shire (?). From Mr. W. Dunbar's Col- 

 lection, 1851. 



Mr. Dunbar wrote to me that this was from " a nest near Loub- 

 croy in the heather. If I mistake not, the Messrs. Milner had one 

 or more of the same nest. I did not get it myself, but the eggs and 

 female were brought to me." 



[In Sir William Milner's account of his expedition in the north of Scot- 

 land (* Zoologist,' 1848, pp. 2014-2017) no mention is made of any Short- 

 eared Owls' eggs.] 



§ 509. One. — Hesleyside, Northumberland, June 1840. From 

 Mr. J. P. Wilmot's Collection, 1846. 



This was obtained, through Mr. Yarrell, from Lovat, the game- 

 keeper at Hesleyside. Mr. Hancock afterwards told me he could 

 be depended upon. 



§ 510. One. — Sweden. From Mr. C. J. Andersson's Collec- 

 tion, 1851. 



§ 511. T^i^o.—Feltwell Fen, Norfolk, 1852. From Mr. J.Baker's 

 Collection. 



Mr. Baker teUs me there were five eggs in this nest. Last year 

 he shot two birds from the nest in the same fen. There were several 

 nests there — merely holes scraped in the ground for the eggs. This 

 year there was only one nest. 



§ 512. Foiir. — Ruana-uoma, Katkesuando, East Bothnia, 1 July, 

 1853. "Bird shot. J. W." 



Beating the marsh on the Russian side [of the river] at Kat- 

 kesuando, with Ludwig, Theodore, and our two boatmen, the 

 former called out to me to shoot; and I saw almost under me an 

 Owl, squatting on the ground and looking at me. At first I sup- 



